April 1, 2010

This is an odd one. Note that the headline is in quote marks because I know that today is April 1 and I know John Pasden can have a devilish sense of humor. Still, it doesn’t look like a joke…or does it?

On a more personal note, here’s my situation:

I now have two major clients. After fearing I could never find work in America, I now have more work than I can handle. Suddenly the work was just there, and I may take on a third client next week. (All of these are in some way related to this blog, which indicates it’s not a total waste of time.) I keep toying with the idea of shutting down the blog, something I think aloud about every year or so, but I still can’t do it. After this long, it would be like giving up a child. I may abandon it for a few weeks at a time, but I won’t give it up.

I leave yet again for Shanghai this weekend where I’ll be working for a full week. So while no one likes it when bloggers write tedious posts apologizing for their not posting, I have to do just that, again. I have a book review I need to write and some other posts percolating, but I’ll be lucky if I can get anything posted between now and April 12, when I come back. So once again, please hang in there and check in every few days. Eventually there’ll be a new post. There always is.

I used to have a team of four in the golden days of 2005, when this blog also included a very busy message board called The Duck Pond. Nothing good can ever last forever….

If anyone wants to blog, please let me know. You just have to liberal, pro-China, anti-Palin, intolerant of stupidity, non-deranged on Tibet, critical of government injustice/corruption, syntax-savvy, and possess at least a trace of wit. Applications are now being accepted.

On a way cooler note – I just saw an ad for Cadbury Creme Eggs. They had about fifty mousetraps set up with an Egg on each… Then they set one of the traps off. Chocolate caramel domino effect from hell. Brilliant!

1) denials from top to bottom of the US military
2) attempts by the CIA to discredit wiki leaks, Reuters
3) the US’ callous behavior towards families of the victims
4) attempts by the CIA to shut down and block wikileaks

I wonder how many more of these videos are out there? America hid hundreds of thousands of murders during the Cold War Era. Mass graves in South Korea have been discovered. I’m sure we’ll look back in 2050 and find that at least 2 million Iraqis were killed.

I’m sure we’ll look back and find that at least two million Tibetans were killed by the Chinese.

Well, of course I don’t really believe that, but it has as much grounding in reality as your idiotic fantasy. The Iraq was is an ugly, terrible thing. But many if not most Iraqis are still glad America waged that war. That doesn’t justify it, and I see it as a crime, but the fragile democracy there is supported by the majority of citizens. I still think it will probably fail and may even collapse in civil war once we leave. But the Americans didn’t kill 2 million Iraqis. That’s just a number you pulled from who-knows-where. Don’t exaggerate and make stuff up.

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A peculiar hybrid of personal journal, dilettantish punditry, pseudo-philosophy and much more, from an Accidental Expat who has made his way from Hong Kong to Beijing to Taipei and finally back to Beijing for reasons that are still not entirely clear to him…